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Health care workers who aren t fingerprinted can keep jobs, but are barred from providing direct care
Jenna Carlesso, CTMirror.org
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Employees in nursing homes, home health care, residential care homes, assisted living centers and other health care settings who were not fingerprinted as part of a state-required background check will be able to keep their jobs, but will be barred from providing direct care to patients until the mandate is fulfilled, the state Department of Public Health said Tuesday.
Gov. Ned Lamont suspended the order that workers in those sectors be fingerprinted when the pandemic hit Connecticut. Employees hired from March 23, 2020, to May 19, 2021, were able to start work without completing that leg of the background check. The requirement was waived to avoid further spread of COVID-19, officials have said.
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For patients who struggle with severe mental illness, behavioral home health can serve as one of the few – if not only – tethers between them and the community in which they live. As part of a broader set of services known as skilled home health care, behavioral home health allows these patients to receive physical and mental health care, as well as medication administration and oversight, from the comfort of their own homes, rather than in large institutional settings such as a skilled nursing facility, residential psychiatric hospital, or correctional institution.
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By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press
July 1, 2021
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Representatives of Connecticut home care, hospice and home health agencies called on state officials Thursday to provide them with more funding, including a share of the state’s remaining federal COVID-19 relief money, warning they’re facing dire financial and staffing challenges.
The Connecticut Association for Healthcare at Home, whose member agencies provide services to nearly 20,000 state-funded residents, including the elderly and medically fragile children and adults, contends the home-based sector of the health care industry has been forgotten as state policymakers focused more attention on the nursing homes and group homes. Unionized workers at those facilities had threatened to strike unless they received greater wages, benefits and protections.
State Auditor Rob Kane of Watertown dies unexpectedly
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Rob Kane, a former state senator from Watertown and one of the state’s two auditors since 2017, died unexpectedly on Friday.Hearst Connecticut Media file photo
State Auditor Rob Kane, a former longtime state senator from Watertown known for his easygoing manner in the state Capitol and his banter with other state employees, died unexpectedly Friday.
Few details, including the cause of 53-year-old Kane’s death, were available Friday night.
“Rob Kane was a great guy with a terrific sense of humor,” said Len Fasano, the former Senate minority leader who served with Kane. “He was always dedicated to the institution and service district extraordinarily well. I’m going to miss his routine phone calls, his humorous texts.”